Re: experimental proposal

Marc Aurele La France wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Jeff Garzik wrote:
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>>Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
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>>>SL> Consider the OpenGL model, where loads of extension exists, and from
>>>SL> time to time the ARB does pull in some of the extensions to become a
>>>SL> standard part of the OpenGL spec, and bump the OpenGL minor version.
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>>>Why is this better than defining a profile ?  (A set of extensions.)
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>>>SL> David doesn't seem keen on letting this be the X.Org people.
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>>>And he's right about that, at any rate.
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>>...because strife and division are always good ideas?
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> I think it's more correct to say that market forces are perennially more
> efficient at producing standards than committees.


Good response :)  I do agree with that, and IETF certainly does too :)

But I am still hoping for some amount of common ground occurring, 
otherwise we'll have duelling X protocol revs :)

	Jeff